Mr. Kostis Efstathiou, Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the issue of the enforcement of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), presented today at a meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights its draft report on the subject, with particular reference to Ukraine, Hungary, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Romania, the countries with the largest and most important backlog of cases before the Court.
Mr Efstathiou also informed the Commission about his recent working visits to Romania and Azerbaijan and his contacts with the relevant state authorities, as well as with representatives of civil society and human rights defenders in the two countries.
During today's session, hearings were held with the heads of the national delegations to the CST and relevant governmental bodies of Hungary, Ukraine and Turkey on the implementation of ECHR judgments. The representatives briefed the Commission on the compliance process and the functioning of domestic accountability mechanisms with regard to their governments' international obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. In this context, the Rapporteur presented the most important cases in these countries, which relate to systemic weaknesses that require the introduction of legislative and other essential reforms.
In addition, with a view to finalizing the draft of his report on Turkey, Mr. Efstathiou met yesterday with delegations of women's organizations active in the field of women's human rights in Kurdistan, who briefed Mr. Efstathiou on the inhuman conditions of detention of the Kurdish leader, Mr. Abdullah Öcalan, in violation of the decisions of the ECHR and the European Convention on Human Rights.
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